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Mark Hanslip and Javier Carmona - Dosados (Babel Label, 2011) ****a1/2
By Joe Higham Mark Hanslip is a name that appears regularly along with Mark Sanders, Paul Dunmall, Mike Hurley, the excellent trio with Olie Brice and Tony Marsh 'Tom-Mix,' and also more recently the splendid Twelves 'Adding Machine,' reviewed here in March 2011. Along with colleague Javier Carmona, another mainstay of the lively UK free scene, ...
Eric Clapton - Me and Mr. Johnson (2004)
By Mark Saleski The next statement I make isn't gonna win a lot of friends and influence in the rock music fan world but, well ... here goes nothin': I've never liked British blues all that much. John Mayall, the Yardbirds and all that. Yeah, they could play all right ... but they just never hit ...
Interview: Al Porcino (Part 3)
Tell most big band trumpeters from the '50s that you dig jazz, and they'll likely correct you by saying that they didn't play jazz. A majority of musicians who played in the trumpet sections of prominent bands viewed themselves as highly skilled readers who added a particular flavor to the whole ensemble, not improvisers. Except, that ...
The Eagles' Don Henley Declares "Time Has Come" to Prepare for Battle with Record Labels
"The time has come" for artist to prepare for a potential battle with the record labels, warns The Eagles' Don Henley. While Henley certainly could recite a litany of grievances, the battle he's warning about is the provision in U.S. Copyright Law that could allow musicians to gain control of their masters 35 years after they ...
A Trip to Target: How Digital is Changing Music Retail
As music sales go further from physical CD's and become all digital, many mass merchandise stores have been cutting down on shelf space and changing their marketing strategies in their music sections. Big stores like Target and Walmart have continued to sell music by partnering with artists and selling exclusive albums with more content or incentives ...
We Remember Hadley Caliman and Eddie Marshall
Today marks the one year anniversary of saxophonist Hadley Caliman's passing. Yesterday we lost another jazz giant in the passing of Bay Area drummer Eddie Marshall. (Pictured above is a photo of Hadley Caliman and Eddie Marshall performing together at the Earshot Jazz Festival). Linda Caliman and friends will gather Friday night at The New Orleans ...
Bill Frisell - All We Are Saying... (Savoy Jazz, 2011)
In guitarist Bill Frisell's liner notes to his most recent LP, he writes about being contacted to perform a special concert of John Lennon compositions. He and the band enjoyed it so much that they continued to tour, playing mostly of the music heard here to an excellent response, and then entered to studio to record. ...
The Urgent Need for Anti-Piracy Measures, in 1971...
You may be too young to remember this, but... Here's an article plucked from the dusty archives of Billboard, specifically May 15th, 1971 (it cost $1.25 newstand.) The article discusses the urgent anti-piracy issues of the moment, including the need to grant broader copyrights on recordings to protect against a surging piracy problem. By 1970, the ...
The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Jazz, September 9-15
After four days of multi-staged music in Detroit, I have to get back to reality. But it's a pleasing reality in the Twin Cities, from violin virtuoso Christian Howes to local favorites Joel Shapira, Maud Hixson, Phil Hey and more. And it's another festival weekend, with the annual Selby Av Jazz Festival on Saturday and the ...
Something Else! Interview: Jazz Guitarist Bill Frisell
We might be tempted to take for granted quietly impactful triumphs like guitarist Bill Frisell's forthcoming All We Are Saying, an Americana-infused tribute to John Lennon. After all, the prolific Frisell has made a career of deftly combining the distortion and verve of modern rock, the raw emotion of backwoods roots music and the sophisticated harmonics ...
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